Alt-F4 #53 - Laziness through Automation

• FactorioScripts

  1 1 5.2 Python

  Useful Python scripts for my Factorio mods

I automated a few processes related to mod development before, most notably the process of bundling up a new release and all the micro-management that comes with that. In that particular case, it’s not even really because I didn’t want to do the same tedious steps for all of my releases (169 and counting for Factory Planner); it’s more about preventing me from making mistakes during that process, which could lead to broken versions getting to users and so on, which would be bad.

• FactoryPlanner

  64 76 9.2 Lua

  A mod for Factorio. Allows you to plan out your production in detail.

Alright, alright, let’s get to the fun part. My idea was pretty simple: Write a Python script that launches Factorio into a custom scenario, which then takes over the actual screenshotting part (for which Factorio has a dedicated API call, thankfully), after which the script puts the screenshots into the right folder and maybe crops them a bit. The first part of that is rather easy: I just needed to figure out which command line arguments I needed, to string them together, and the scenario would already be up and running. So far, so good.

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